Many universities in Indonesia, especially engineering faculties, become quite difficult to provide their activities in learning or researching with appropriate facilities. One of the ways to sovle its problems is making collaboration with industry. The concept of this collaboration is to internalize industry with its resources,as much as we can be collaborated, becoming an intergral part of university as filed laboratory. This collaboration is not just for (formal-limited) research but will be intgrated with the university curriculum and focused on the products, processes, systems and problems of industry over time. Both parties togather have to identify and determine what subject that match and may use industry as a laboratory based on their needs and resources to create the convenience and worthwhile collaboration’s programs. They will share their resources. To minimize conflicts, all actions that will be done, must be written down on a Memorandum of Understanding. On eventually University’s community have real laboratory to sharpen and develop their knowledge, skill and ability meanwhile industry will get solution of its real and actual problems. This kind of collaboration is more fitted for and effective to industrial engineering department.
Keywords: integrated collaboration, field laboratory, curriculum, industry’s problems, sharing resources, industrial engineering
Presented and Published in International Conference UIBL 2012
